The president has usually appeared in public to shake fingers with supporters and mingle with crowds, at occasions with out a masks. He has mentio
The president has usually appeared in public to shake fingers with supporters and mingle with crowds, at occasions with out a masks. He has mentioned his historical past as an athlete would shield him from the virus, and that it will be nothing greater than a “little flu” had been he to contract it.
He has additionally repeatedly mentioned there is no such thing as a option to forestall 70 % of the inhabitants falling sick with Covid-19 and that native authorities’ measures to close down financial exercise would finally trigger extra hardship than permitting the virus to run its course.
Cities and states final month started lifting restrictions that had been imposed to manage the unfold of the virus, as their statistical curves of fatalities started to say no together with the occupation fee of its intensive-care models. Brazil, the world’s sixth most populous nation, with greater than 210 million individuals, is without doubt one of the world scorching spots of the pandemic.
On Monday, Bolsonaro instructed supporters in Brasilia that he underwent an X-ray of his lungs that confirmed they had been clear, and that he can be examined for Covid-19. On Tuesday, he instructed CNN Brasil that his fever had subsided.